Frugal Babe

At the beginning of April, I set a goal to have 350 subscribers to this blog by the end of the month.  I’m happy to report that as of today, I’m at 360!  A big thank you to all my subscribers, and congratulations to Lynnae (who inspired me to try to increase my readership) who [...]

The Festival of Frugality is up at Sound Money Matters.  Lots of good ideas and entertaining reading.   I completely agree with Money Blue Book’s post about higher gas prices (hopefully) leading to a decrease in the number of cars on the road.   I will always walk or bike if it’s a reasonable alternative.  If I’m going [...]

We spent the day at my parents’ house today, and my mother and I got a great start on the diapers we’re making for the baby.  We had a blast - lots of chit chatting while we worked.  We finished five diapers completely, and I got all the fabric cut for 14 more that my [...]

At the beginning of the month, I wrote about a necklace that I was thinking of buying.  The sale price ends next week, and and I had decided to think about it during the month and make my decision near the end of the month.  I decided last night that I’m going to pass on [...]

The Carnival Of Personal Finance is up at The Happy Rock.  I was excited to see my entry as an editor’s pick!  Amy Clark has a great post about her version of the American Dream - I can very much relate.  And I enjoyed the reminder that that money really is for spending - whether we [...]

NtJS has tagged me to post our five biggest budget busters. We try really hard to avoid budget busters. For the most part we do a pretty good job, but there are always things that we spend money on that we hadn’t planned. So here goes…
1. Uplanned meals away from home. [...]

I planted our garden today.  We’ve been spending about $15/week on greens since the beginning of the year when we started making green smoothies every day.  I love the smoothies, but all winter long I was looking forward to being able to grow the greens in our garden for free during the summer.  I spent [...]

My parents helped us build a set of shelves for our bedroom yesterday, and we spent part of today putting on the finishing touches.  We used high-grade birch plywood to make the shelves, which cost about $120 (as opposed to $1000 if we had used solid oak - the shelves are 6 feet by 8 feet [...]

Lynnae wrote earlier this week about going paperless around the house.  Using rags and washcloths instead of paper towels and wipes, cloth napkins, cloth diapers… there are so many ways to limit the use of disposable paper products (and indeed, disposable anything).  My husband and I always try to make sure that we never have [...]

My husband and I both currently work full-time (probably more than full-time if we were to actually keep track).  We don’t make a huge amount of money, but it’s plenty for us.  I know we could be earning a lot more money if that were our primary focus, but we decided a long time ago that [...]